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Wilkes-Barre PA Faces Heroin Scourge Turning It Into 'the Most Unhappy Place in America'

 
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Wilkes-Barre PA Faces Heroin Scourge Turning It Into 'the Most Unhappy Place in America'
The deadly math in Wilkes-Barre
Last year there were 137 fatal drug overdoses — more than half of them the result of heroin laced with fentanyl — in a county of just 318,000 people.

That death rate is four times higher than New York City.

"Twenty years ago, we might have 12 deaths we determined to be drug deaths," Lisman said. "This year we are on track for 150 deaths…By our standards, it's off the charts."

There have been so many fatal drug overdoses that Lisman, who uses an examination room in the basement of a local hospital to do autopsies, said he has had to "finagle space to put all the bodies."

"I have only room for two in my cooler," he said. "There's room for just 10 more in the hospital's other cooler."

The victims reflect the demographics of the county — they're mostly white, often lower to middle income, Lisman said.

"Age wise, we are across the spectrum, from 20s to the 70s," he said. "We see everyone from the guy in the flophouse to the hard-working guys or gals who find relief in drugs."

[link to www.nbcnews.com]

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Re: Wilkes-Barre PA Faces Heroin Scourge Turning It Into 'the Most Unhappy Place in America'
That's harsh, because it is also one of America's ugliest places.

Can't stand driving through there.
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Sad. I know the area. It is surging everywhere. The
people I meet who do those drugs truly are the most
unhappy of all, it is obvious. No peace in that way.
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I'm sure increasing taxes to cover the cost of a tax credit to a company that hires a heroine user will resolve things.
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01/09/2017 06:13 PM
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That's because they belly-upped the coal industry. There are no jobs really. Sad :(
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01/09/2017 06:19 PM
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3 died in Seattle over the weekend from a heroin OD. They were located off 99 at some motel. I have no particular love for drug users, but this is really getting out of control. And it was a good thing to open up marijuana sales to all?
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Ugh... I live 15 minutes from Wilkes
. I didn't know the drug problem was so horrible... sad.
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Every single poppy field in Afghanistan (where most of the heroin comes from) could be destroyed in about a week.

Our government does not want to. Too much money to be made in the multibillion dollar dope trade. Too many big players on Wall Street all the way down the bribe chain in our stinking government agencies making big $$$$.

You think there care about some kid from Wilkes-Barre who OD's? No fking way. Sweet money is all they care about.
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This is why Obama let the cartels and gangs in. To flood America with drugs that kill whitey.
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Every single poppy field in Afghanistan (where most of the heroin comes from) could be destroyed in about a week.

Our government does not want to. Too much money to be made in the multibillion dollar dope trade. Too many big players on Wall Street all the way down the bribe chain in our stinking government agencies making big $$$$.

You think there care about some kid from Wilkes-Barre who OD's? No fking way. Sweet money is all they care about.
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That's because they belly-upped the coal industry. There are no jobs really. Sad :(
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That is not the half of it. The Roman Catholic Church, via the Italian Mafia, is essentially ethnically cleansing the area, to make it firmly Roman Catholic.

They are deliberately poisoning the non-Roman Catholic's to death, to bring in more Roman Catholic colonists, from Latin America.
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I will, once again, advance a modest proposal....

I had a dear relative who paid into Medicare for many years. She got cancer and Medicare told her, "Sorry, but your prognosis is poor and, besides, the biopsy was inconclusive. We don't know for sure how to treat your cancer, so we WILL NOT PAY FOR TREATMENT (!!). However, we WILL pay for "hospice" which means a nice nurse will hook you up to a morphine pump. When you feel pain, you push the button and get a shot of morphine".

She was dead in six days from a bowel blockage caused by the hospice morphine.

So, why not treat addicts as well as we treated Grandma?

How about offering addicts a choice of 1) jail 2) rehab, or 3) HOSPICE.

Drug addicts have a fatal disease and many do NOT want treatment (rehab).

In hospice, they get meals, a dorm room, and all the drugs they want. Anything. For free. Party till you drop.

Two conditions: 1) Mandatory birth control so we don't get addicted babies, and 2) a do not resuscitate order. If you OD, that's it.

Crime would go down. Cartels would go out of business. Crooked cops, judges, and pols would grieve.

What's not to like?
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fentanyl and carfentanil are some of the most powerful synthetic opiates that are cheaply made in China and shipped to the USA by the ton!

expect more of the same in a town near you
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Lived there a few years a decade or so ago. Was pretty fucking shitty then, can only imagine now.

Pa is one of the most beautiful states in the country... From the highway.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

Or something
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I was born in Wilkes-Barre. I'm saddened by all the negative comments about it. :-(
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I was born in Wilkes-Barre. I'm saddened by all the negative comments about it. :-(
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Sorry. Lived in plains for 3 years and just was not my cup of tea.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

Or something
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3 died in Seattle over the weekend from a heroin OD. They were located off 99 at some motel. I have no particular love for drug users, but this is really getting out of control. And it was a good thing to open up marijuana sales to all?
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